Andrew Balding is taking things steady with Night Carnation and that decision can pay off in the Listed totesport.com Scurry Stakes at Sandown.
A winner at this track and York already this season, Royal Ascot was mentioned but she has swerved the big boys.
Arguably she was not that impressive at York last time out but she did have the worst of the draw and was possibly in front long enough.
At these weights, she should be winning easily.
Voodoo Prince can confirm the good impression he made when winning on his last start by landing the Bet On Tote Placepot at totesport.com Handicap.
The first foal of top-class mare Ouija Board, the three-year-old was a bit backward last term and never made the track.
He made his debut at Newbury in April and there were some who were disappointed by his sixth-place but given that the third horse, Colombian, has since finished fourth in the French Derby, that form could perhaps be viewed in a different light.
Sent off favourite for his next start at Haydock, it looked as if he was going to have to settle for second behind a choicely-bred newcomer of Roger Varian's but he showed a willing attitude and quickened twice to win going away.
Sea Moon was one of the winter favourites for the Derby so there will be some long faces at Sir Michael Stoute's Freemason Lodge if he cannot win the Give Generously To Macmillan Stakes at York.
Second on his debut at Leicester, he was made to work very hard to land the odds at 1-5 next time at Yarmouth.
He is related to Derby and Arc winner Workforce so he will not have been suited at all by the heavy ground that day and he will need to win off 92 to take up his position in the Irish Derby.
Balding's horses usually improve a good deal for their first start of the season and if Desert Law does the same, he will take all the beating in the Bond Tyres Trophy Stakes.
Eric Alston knows how to handle good sprinters and Barkston Ash is progressing at a rate of knots.
Having won at Newcastle at the beginning of May of just 56, he is now on a four-timer running off 75.
His last win at Ripon suggested more to come, however, and the Chester Rocks 2 & 3 July Handicap on the Roodee looks winnable.
Tom Dascombe's string is absolutely flying at present and Cape Moss is the choice in the More Ways To Win EBF Novice Stakes at Bath.
Noel Quinlan's Lemon Rock should win the Inspirational Health Care Maiden Fillies' Stakes at Leicester after finishing second last time, while Godolphin's Outsmart is impossible to oppose in the Win A Holiday On Ladies Night Median Auction Maiden Stakes at Lingfield.
Mardood can prevail in Hexham's Hadrian Health Care Handicap Hurdle.
Palace Moon can prove a highly apt winner of Sunday's Bridget Swire's Palace Affair & Sakhee's Secret Cathedral Stakes at Salisbury.
The six-year-old was bred by the late Miss Swire and his last win at Newmarket back in 2009 came in her colours.
Admittedly a winless streak stretching back the best part of two years is not a massive positive, but this Listed heat does not look to be the strongest in the calendar.
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